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Friday, November 13, 2009

Advent Swap has arrived...a Win...Stitchers Angel has arrived...and 2 very special little people!!!

Hello to all my lovely Friends out there in Blogland...

The weather here on the Coast has been absolutely beautiful this week...warm sunny days with a few beach walks thrown in...I reckon it's time to hit that water soon!!!

this parcel is part of the Advent Swap hosted by Fiona in conjunction with Jo ...

My goodies are all in here...numbered from 1-24...one gift a day to be opened up till 25th December...and I am being very good and just staring at this box...and not opening it...

And Hubby is amazed it is still sitting there unopened!!!

(I think he's secretly on guard!!!)Thank you so much Carol...I am eagerly awaiting to delve into these gifts come December!!!

And Carol ...your Advent gifts are on their way to you in this bag!!!Thank you so much to Fiona and Jo for organizing this Advent Swap...what fun it has been!!!

Then the next day...I received another package...with none other than our own Russel Crowe on the stamps!!!This one a giveaway win over at Miss Nance's !!!

All wrapped up in this fat quarter with a scrapbooked card...

were these 'vintage' d'oyleys!!!

Thank you so much Gail for hosting this fun giveaway!!!Gail and I hope to meet each other one day as she lives not too far away from me!!!

But wait...there's more!!!2 days later another parcel...this one from my Stitchers Angel...Sigrid, all the way from Germany!!!

My Angel gifts all wrapped...and ready to be opened...

all in reversible paper too...I haven't seen that before!!!

A little Advent Calendar card along with a postcard!!!

And inside...a journal cover with a rose stitchery on the front...

a little bag...some lotion...and the biggest surprise...A Harry Potter calendar for 2010!!!Oh Sigrid...how excited was I to see all this!!!

Plus a lovely little zippered case...rose fabric and threads!!!The theme for this Swap was roses...how beautiful is that!!!Sigrid has a wonderful Harry Potter quilt on her blog...if you get a chance and you are a Harry Potter fan hop on over and take a look...you won't be disappointed!!!Oh Sigrid...these are the first swap gifts I have received...they are just so gorgeous...you have lovely small stitches!!!

I am well and truly blown away by your generosity...and your thoughtfulness and will always treasure my first Stitcher's Angel Swap gifts!!!Thank you so very very much dear Stitchers Angel Sigrid...Danke Schon (hope that's right)!!!And a huge thank you to Helen (Mother Angel) for organizing this swap so Stitchers all over the world could take part in this!!!

Last weekend we looked after these 2 precious little Cherubs...

while their Mum put on these very pretty pink shoes and went off to a Wedding!!!

YAY!!! What a week you've had Dzintra!!! What fabulous gifts and prizes and goodies! Those little cherubs are SOOO darling! You must be in heaven right now! Enjoy your lovely weather at the beach~ xx Vicki

Wow, what a great week you have had leading to Christmas!!! The box of Advent gifts! A good girl to wait until then. The rest of the goodies are beautiful too. And the littlies were well behave for you. I love J's shoes too. I would love to see what her dress looks like? Have a great weekend - Hugs Nat

Ooh Christmas come early! How exciting. I am very jealous of your weather, we have storms and rain here in England. Above all I am SOOOO envious of your Granny status, I cn't wait for my son to start a family, so I can be a doting Granma :DWhat gorgeous little children, I can just imagine Jo-jo the proud Auntie XX

Dear, Dzintra!How nice , you found me thru wonderful, Julie. Thank you for visiting me,and leaving a warming comment. I´m glad you want to take part in my giveaway "lottery"...You are more than welcome.Good Luck!

Hi Dzintra, What beautiful gifts, you lucky girlie. And your grandies look super. I do so love my grandies and enjoy looking after them for a while, nice to give them back afterwards though. Have a super week. hugs xxx

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Hello, my name is Dzintra Ingrid ... have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra ... pronounced without the D ... (but still known as Ingrid, I know, it's confusing ...) Welcome to my world ... a journal of our Sea Change ... Mum to three wonderful children ... bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes ... being a new Nanna ... photos ... inspiring quotes ... taking on a cookery course ... the odd recipe ... and trying to get some stitching done amongst all this ...

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Hi...my name is Dzintra Ingrid...I have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra...pronounced without the D...but still known as Ingrid....I know...it's confusing!!!
Welcome to my world...a journal of our Sea Change...Mum to three wonderful children...bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes...being a new Nanna...photos...inspiring quotes...my latest reads...my love of cooking (and eating)...and trying to get some stitching done amongst this. Come with me...on my journey...especially my family and friends all scattered...hope you enjoy your visit...

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'Welcome to Holland'

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this ...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum, Michelangelo's David - the gondolas of Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland'.

'Holland'? You say. 'What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy'.

But there has been a change in the flight plan. They have landed in Holland, and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, filthy place, full of famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while, you look around, and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they are all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, 'Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That is what I had planned'.

The pain of that will never go away, because the loss of a dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

Written by Emily Perl Kingsley......Mother of a Child with a Disability

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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